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Instagram

It is an online mobile photo-sharing site that allows its users to share pictures and videos on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 300 million users as of December 2014. The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately US$1 billion in cash. Users can upload photos and short videos (for a maximum of 1 minute), follow other users' feeds and geotag images with longitude and latitude coordinates, or the name of the location. 

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War.  Churchill was famous for his stubborn resistance to Hitler during the darkest hours of the Second World War. Winston was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock near Oxford to an aristocratic family.  He wasn’t the best student, having a rebellious nature and was reportedly slow to learn; but Churchill excelled at sports and joined the officer cadet corps, which he enjoyed.  On leaving school, he went to Sandhurst to train as an officer. After gaining his commission, Churchill sought to gain as much active military experience as possible. He used his mothers connections to get postings to areas of conflict. The young Churchill gained postings to Cuba, and North West India. He also combined his military duties with working as a war correspondent.  In 1899, he resigned from the military and pur...
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The Physician's Tale

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Confessions of a tweeter.

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